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Dev Patel (born 23 April 1990) is a British actor. He began his career playing Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007). His breakthrough came with the leading role of teenager Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Patel's career expanded with leading roles in the comedy-dramas The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the science fiction thriller Chappie (2015), and a supporting role in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). For his performance as Saroo Brierley in the drama Lion (2016), Patel won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently starred in the independent films Hotel Mumbai (2018), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and The Green Knight (2021), and made his directorial debut with the action film Monkey Man (2024).
BLACK LOTUS follows Lia Varela (Ana de Armas), a 32-year-old ex-cyber intelligence officer with a mysterious past. After a global data collapse, she is recruited by a rogue agency to track down fragments of an AI that could either save or destroy humanity. Each film uncovers deeper conspiracies, globe-trotting intrigue, and the blurred line between humanity and machine. Franchise Structure Film 1: BLACK LOTUS Lia is recruited to recover the first AI fragment in neo-Tokyo, forming her core team and facing off against Viktor’s mercenaries. Film 2: LOTUS SHADOW The chase leads them to cyber-Paris and the underworld, where old betrayals come to light and Echo makes her allegiances known. Film 3: LOTUS ASCENDANT The race to the final fragment in the Amazon basin, with the fate of humanity at stake, and Lia confronting her own humanity.
